Monday, July 9, 2012

Madagascar
3: Europe’s Most Wanted has so far grossed $376,596,522 in box office
receipts worldwide. The animated flick stars Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith
and Chris Rock and runs for one-and-a-half hours. In this instalment of the
Madagascar franchise, characters Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still
trying to get back to their beloved Central Park zoo in New York, but first
they need to find the penguins. When they travel to Monte Carlo, they attract
the attention of Animal Control after gate crashing a party and are joined by
the penguins, King Julian and Co., and the monkeys. Their attempts to get back
to New York are consistently hampered by the Captain of Animal Control who
wants to make Alex part of her collection…

Madagascar
3 opened in Kenya on June 22nd and was screened at Fox Theatres,
Nyali Cinemax, Starflix, IMAX Theatre (20th Century Plaza) among others.
The 3D movie cost an estimated $145,000,000 to make and consists of more than
120,000 individual computer-generated frames! One part – a flashback sequence -
incorporated massive fire effects and highly detailed crowd close-up shots that
took 2.8 million hours to render.

HP
technology was used to help DreamWorks animators create the breath-taking scenes.
Artists used more than 200 high performance HP workstations to help design
everything in the film—from the Zooster characters to digital effects such as
complex fire and highly detailed crowd close-ups. Advanced HP ProLiant BL460c blade technology, geographically
dispersed in four server render farms across the United States and India,
provided peak compute power at crucial stages of production. The blade servers
powered an incredible 200 terabytes of data and more than 65 million render
hours.

About Me

Born on April 23rd just like William Shakespeare, I have dabbled in
just about every type of writing. My books include: 'When the Whirlwind
Passes'(suspense novel), 'The Moon is Made of Green Cheese' (poetry
anthology), 'Kiss, Commander, Promise' (short story anthology) and 'Africa on My Mind'. They are available as paperbacks and e-books at Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/NewShakespeare